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Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x ?

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Story Start

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The hallway outside of the room was filled with near staunch silent. The only sound being that of shuffling back and forth hoof steps.

Seven ponies filled the room waiting anxiously for any kind of news about the blond. They were all worried as the stallion they had all come to love was seriously injured the previous night. Each in a varying state of despair.

Fluttershy and Rarity were sat closest to the room; with the latter holding the former as silent tears flowed from them both. It felt like as if a sharp pain had gripped both of their hearts. The stallion they both loved so dearly was in pain, could be dying, and there was nothing they could do but wait.

Rainbow Dash was looking at the door to the room, wondering what was taking the nurse so long. She was anxious to find out what had happened Naruto. Dark thoughts had filled her mind. Wanting nothing more than to find the bastard that set this whole thing up and make him or her pay. For hurting her friend. Her bro. Her...

Applejack was occupying herself by pacing back and forth along the hallway thinking to herself. How could this have happened? 'You got to pull through Naruto. We need ya. I need ya.'

Ditzy's gaze was trained on the door. Silently hoping, praying that he was going to be okay. She had finally found somepony she would be able to love and would love her back and if she lost him she felt like she would break.

Pinkie had probably been the quietest of them all. The happy-go-lucky mare had simply sat there, frowning, being silent and looking sad. The thought that she could lose someone that meant so much to her hurt even more than the thought of never being able to party again.

Twilight was quickly going through several books given to her by Celestia on the nature of Rune magic in hopes of finding a clue, anything they could use to help the unconscious blond. Before Twilight had even realized it, Naruto had become such an integral part of her life that it hurt her deeply that they could lose him. He had helped and thought her so much she wasn't sure if she could handle this loss.

It was at everyponies relief when Doctor Quick Fix came around the corner and walked towards them. A talented mare that graduated at the top of her class Quick Fix was a rather tail unicorn of five foot eight, slender, with sunflower yellow mane done in the style of a ponytail and tail with chestnut colored coat. She wore a pair of slim frames and was dressed in a white doctor's coat over a dark emerald top and long black business skirt. Twilight knew the doctor well, having served as the head doctor of the royal staff for many years.

"Doctor Quick Fix, thank goodness you're here," Fluttershy said, a little louder than her usual timid voice. Those who were seated stood up in anticipation. Twilight looked up at the nurse.

"How bad is it?" Twilight asked, with worry in her eyes. She had felt so hopeless. No matter what she read she couldn't find anything that could help.

"It's not looking good, I'm afraid," Quick Fix replied solemnly. "Several of his organs were punctured by the iron bars. We managed to stop the internal bleeding and done what we can to stabilize him, but the Rune magic prevented us from being able to simply remove the dead tissue to start up the regeneration progress." She sighed, "I don't think he's going to make it. My team and I did everything that we could. I'm surprised that he was still alive when he was brought in." Twilight looked down at the ground, trembling.

"Can-can we see him?" Pinkie asked quietly while stepping forward slowly.

"You can if you want, but he won't be awake," answered the doctor. "I'll just go and change his bandages, and then you can come in." She opened the door and walked inside, closing it behind her. They all just sat there for a moment before hearing a loud gasp from behind the door. Looking up they saw Quick Fix burst out of it.

"Twilight!" The doctor gasped, not showing any of her usual composure, her eyes wide with surprise. "You're going to want to look at this! The rest of you come as well!" She went back in the room and was quickly followed by the others.

The bloodied and burned form of Naruto was glowing in a golden energy that was mending his wounds. They watched in silent awe as slowly but surely, he was being healed by whatever this strange energy was. Soon the energy faded.

Quick Fix shouted for her assistants as they rushed in. Orders were shouted as they began checking the blond for any sort of injury. Normally the visitors would have been ushered back out, but in the excitement of this very unusual situation it had slipped the mind of the medical professionals. "I am not sure what happened, but he has almost completely healed!" Quick Fix mumbled loudly in shock. "His heart beat and pulse are almost normal and his temperature is oddly enough 102 but he suffers none of the symptoms of a fever."

"That is normal for Naruto as his body temperature as always been warmer than most." Rarity answered. She better than anyone knew about the certain medical nuances of the blond. Celestia knows he ended up in the hospital enough for her to knew. In response to her growing relief she held a hand over her heart. She felt like she was going to break out in tears of joy knowing that the love of her life would soon be okay.

"From the looks of things, he's going to be fine. I'll leave you all with him." She turned to one of her nurses. "Mender, report this to the Princesses at once." Celestia after all had ordered that any major changes to his health were to be reported to her and Luna immediately. Quick Fix had never seen such despair in her ruler's face as long as she knew her and it was not a look she ever wants to see again.

Then that's when it happened. When Naruto jolted upright it caused everypony jump backwards startled about his awakening.

The first words out of his mouth of course were what one would expect of typical Naruto. Not a 'what happened?' or a 'where am I' but. "I'm sorry, I made you all worry, didn't I?" Next thing he knew he had found himself hugged by seven relieved and happy mares.

When his mares left Naruto couldn't help but feel a little lonely. Visiting hours could be stretched only for so long. If they needed him they would be staying in the castle guest rooms and planned on coming by tomorrow first thing in the morning.

"You gave us quite the fright you know." Naruto began to stir as he looked up at the speaker. He'd recognized that warm, motherly voice anywhere.

"Sorry Celestia. But you should already know I'd never die so easily." He said with a grin.

"Scare us like that again and we shall spend a great deal of time making you pay." By the grin on his face Luna noticed he saw through her veil threat. So, she did what felt natural, grabbing his cheek, leaning over to give him a tender kiss. Which turned rather heated rather quickly as she slipped her tongue into his mouth.

The sound of a clearing throat reminded them that Celestia was still there. A tiny grin forming on her face.

"Yes, can we help you?" he asked, an impish grin forming on his face.

"It’s good to see you're in still good spirits. By the way Quick Fix has given you a clean bill of health and you can leave tomorrow morning." The elation in his eyes brought a bigger smile to her eyes.

"Good, never did like staying in hospitals." He replied. "Boring and lonely. Good job on making sure the food isn't terrible though." He congratulated her. For he did not believe it was within the realm of men or pony to make hospital food not terrible.

"Just because it has to be good for you does not mean it has to be ghastly in taste." Celestia reasoned. "I do my best to keep a close eye on expenditures and making sure the money in Canterlot hospitals is actually spent on the hospital and not lining the pockets of medical board members with outrageous bonuses is always one of the things at the top of my list." Of course, the health of her subjects would be one of the things she would take most seriously. "I have terrible news I am afraid. The assassination appeared to have been nothing more than a cover. After we got you proper medical attention we were informed that several guards were killed and the Condemned Adrenaline Rush was broken out."

Naruto took notice of the heavy, sorrowful expression on her face as she explained. The death of those guards was going to weigh on her conscious. Even if there was nothing she could have done, even if it was not her fault he knew Celestia was going to take their deaths personally and it was going to be up to him to help her. He was going to need Luna and Candance's help if he was going to put his plan in action.

To his surprise Luna climbed into bed with him and began to snuggle him. "Right now, matters of stress should not be on your mind. You should be resting." She said, sending Celestia an annoyed look, causing her sister to flinch. She felt the last thing the blond needed to be dealing with was stress because of his whole ordeal. "As for boredom and loneliness I shall be keeping you company tonight after I finish some matters that need to be taken care of."

"And I am okay with that."

"Luna is right, you should be resting." With that Celestia walked over and placed a kiss on his forehead. "I will be back tomorrow to see to it you are released without any complications." She paused; there was something in her eyes. She was going to say something, but decided against it. "Goodnight." She said as she also said her goodnights to Luna as she prepared to turn in. Even after four months she still found it difficult to get her body to adjust to having more sleep, but most positively the added blissful rest time she was getting made the headaches of dealing with the unrulier nobles better.

"We shall be seeing you soon." Luna said as she kissed his cheek, a grin forming as she teleported away.

'Uh-oh.' I am not trusting that grin.' He thought as he turned to the table at the side. At least Twilight had brought him some reading material. Well he could read history, or theories on magic, or fiction. After debating about it for twenty seconds he decided to go with that Daring Do book. He heard it was popular and decided to give it a chance.

"I am ready to turn in for the night." Luna's voice pierced through the veil of Naruto's reading.

"These new modern night gowns are quite revealing. We hope you do not mind." Luna's expression was one that was a bit uncertain, maybe even embarrassed, and not for one second did not buy it.

That night gown was indeed rather revealing and a lovely shade of green with a little crescent moon pendant at the middle portion of the valley of her bosom. If it was Luna's plan to make sure he wasn't going to get any rest tonight she was going to succeed.